The political economy of New Labour by Colin Hay

The political economy of New Labour by Colin Hay

The Political Economy of New Labour provides one of the first systematic assessments and accessible evaluations of the modernization of the British Labour Party in the light of its landslide electoral victory in 1997. It also represents a rare attempt to locate Labour's modernization in terms of the distinctive political economy of contemporary British capitalism and the impact of globalization, the evolution and transformation of the British State in the post-war period, the legacy of Thatcherism, and the specifics of electoral strategy and competition in contemporary Britain. In doing so, it provides a genuinely interdisciplinary account and analysis of Labour's modernization and the strategic terrain within which this has been played out, as well as an assessment of the strategic alternatives available to a New Labour administration in an era of globalization, and an evaluation of the prospects for a decisive break with the Thatcher-Major legacy.

COLIN HAY is a Professor of Political Analysis at the University of Sheffield and Co-Director of the Sheffield Political Economy Research Center. DANIEL WINCOTT is a co-chair of the Wales Governance Centre and the Blackwell Professor of Law and Society at Cardiff University Law School.

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ISBN 13	9780719054822
ISBN 10	0719054826
Title	The political economy of New Labour
Author	Colin Hay
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Manchester University Press
Year published	1999-06-03
Number of pages	256
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